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Looped Whisper is a free, open-source macOS menu-bar transcription app that runs Whisper models locally on Apple Silicon. It gives developers and power users push-to-talk or toggle hotkeys, real-time transcription, clipboard insertion at the cursor, vocabulary biasing, and optional LLM cleanup through Anthropic or OpenAI-compatible keys stored in Keychain. The project is useful for people who dictate into code editors, chats, notes, tickets, or documentation but want speech recognition to stay on-device instead of sending audio to a hosted API. It is notable now because it launched on Show HN as a focused FOSS alternative to cloud dictation tools, with a verified GitHub repository, MIT license, release/install instructions, and Homebrew cask support.

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